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Drivers reeling after passengers caught out by AI-powered safety cameras

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jackvalentine wrote: post #7
ehnto wrote: post #6

I am very torn on this, because something absolutely needs to be done about phone usage while driving as it's just genuinely shocking. On the other hand, such pervasive and ever present law enforcement is oppressive. If the majority of your citizens are breaking a law, then your citizenship clearly thinks the law is unnecessary. We give road laws a pass because safety is quite provable through studies and we listen t…

> If the majority of your citizens are breaking a law, then your citizenship clearly thinks the law is unnecessary. Which law do you think the majority of the citizenship here is breaking?

I'm not thinking of any, we wouldn't know until we had infallible ever present enforcement.

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yunnpp wrote: post #8
ehnto wrote: post #6

I am very torn on this, because something absolutely needs to be done about phone usage while driving as it's just genuinely shocking. On the other hand, such pervasive and ever present law enforcement is oppressive. If the majority of your citizens are breaking a law, then your citizenship clearly thinks the law is unnecessary. We give road laws a pass because safety is quite provable through studies and we listen t…

> because something absolutely needs to be done about phone usage while driving as it's just genuinely shocking. It's actually very simple. Put a cop by the sidewalk, have them stop people and issue a fine. You'd be making several grand every day. I would do it myself, but I am not authorized to stop people and take their money. There is no need for cameras when the violations are so blatantly obvious and recurring.

They did this for a while, I don't know what the outcome was.

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ahonhn wrote: post #10
gnabgib wrote: post #5

Western Australia drivers reeling after passengers caught out by AI cameras Don't know why OP dropped an important regional distinction.. not a problem in Honduras, for example. Or Washington state

A HN audience is so sure to parse "WA" as Washington state that leaving it in the title would be misleading with every second response along the lines of "I only clicked because I thought it was Washington". Should it be expanded to "Aussie"? (since "West Australian", "Australian", "Sandgroper", or "Doubleyooalien drivers" doesn't fit the title field). I reckon the location is secondary and the interesting part is ab…

W.Aus. maybe? As many characters as Aussie. I didn’t have a problem finding out it was WA from the article, though.

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Post by metalman »

I think it's great how beurocrats are institutionalising everything, everywhere, at least for people who work, sort of a prequil to the way the same technology is bieng use for genocide in Palestine, with of course the profits from these operations, going to funding the genocide, directly.

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Post by tencentshill »

ehnto wrote: post #6

I am very torn on this, because something absolutely needs to be done about phone usage while driving as it's just genuinely shocking. On the other hand, such pervasive and ever present law enforcement is oppressive. If the majority of your citizens are breaking a law, then your citizenship clearly thinks the law is unnecessary. We give road laws a pass because safety is quite provable through studies and we listen t…

In a democracy, that policy would get you removed from office. Don't hassle your own voters.

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Post by jackvalentine »

tencentshill wrote: post #15
ehnto wrote: post #6

I am very torn on this, because something absolutely needs to be done about phone usage while driving as it's just genuinely shocking. On the other hand, such pervasive and ever present law enforcement is oppressive. If the majority of your citizens are breaking a law, then your citizenship clearly thinks the law is unnecessary. We give road laws a pass because safety is quite provable through studies and we listen t…

In a democracy, that policy would get you removed from office. Don't hassle your own voters.

The people fined for doing the wrong thing are an absolute minority of voters and the majority supports this kind of thing.

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Post by ehnto »

tencentshill wrote: post #15
ehnto wrote: post #6

I am very torn on this, because something absolutely needs to be done about phone usage while driving as it's just genuinely shocking. On the other hand, such pervasive and ever present law enforcement is oppressive. If the majority of your citizens are breaking a law, then your citizenship clearly thinks the law is unnecessary. We give road laws a pass because safety is quite provable through studies and we listen t…

In a democracy, that policy would get you removed from office. Don't hassle your own voters.

It is currently developing in Australia, we will probably find out what the limit is if it starts impacting the vote.
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